In his book “The Language Instinct,” Steven Pinker takes the same road as Deutscher: dramatically debunking a claim Whorf never made (linguistic determinism) then proceeding to agree with the ...

So-called “linguistic determinism” was first proposed in 1950 but has been hotly debated ever since. “It is a very surprising and very important result,” says Lisa Feigenson, a ...

One form of linguistic relativity is linguistic determinism that refers to the idea that a person's language determines, restricts or enables their ideation. Linguistic determinism originally came ...